Frank STELLA "Labyrinth"

Frank STELLA "Labyrinth", a photo by gleitzeit2012 on Flickr.

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Blue Reincarnation Narcissus by Jaisini

Blue Reincarnation Narcissus by Jaisini The theme of Narcissus in Jaisini's "Blue..." may be paralleled with the problem of the two-sexes-in-one, unable to reproduce and, therefore, destined to the Narcissus-like end. Meanwhile, the Narcissus legend lasts. In the myth of Narcissus a youth gazes into the pool. As the story goes, Narcissus came to the spring or the pool and when his form was seen by him in the water, he drowned among the water-nymphs because he desired to make love to his own image. Maybe the new Narcissus, as in "Blue Reincarnation," is destined to survive by simply changing his role from a passive man to an aggressive woman and so on. To this can be added that, eventually, a man creates a woman whom he loves out of himself or a woman creates a man and loves her own image but in the male form. The theme of narcissism recreates the 'lost object of desire.' "Blue" also raises the problem of conflating ideal actual and the issue of the feminine manhood and masculine femininity. There is another story about Narcissus' fall which said that he had a twin sister and they were exactly alike in appearance. Narcissus fell in love with his sister and, when the girl died, would go to the spring finding some relief for his love in imagining that he saw not his own reflection but the likeness of his sister. "Blue" creates a remarkable and complex psychopathology of the lost, the desired, and the imagined. Instead of the self, Narcissus loves and becomes a heterogeneous sublimation of the self. Unlike the Roman paintings of Narcissus which show him alone with his reflection by the pool, the key dynamic in Jaisini's "Blue" is the circulation of the legend that does not end and is reincarnated in transformation when autoeroticism is not permanent and is not single by definition. In "Blue," we risk being lost in the double reflection of a mirror and never being able to define on which side of the mirror Narcissus is. The picture's color is not a true color of spring water. This kind of color is a perception of a deep seated human belief in the concept of eternity, the rich saturated cobalt blue. The ultrahot, hyperreal red color of the figure of Narcissus is not supposed to be balanced in the milieu of the radical blue. Jaisini realizes the harmony in the most exotic color combination. While looking at "Blue," we can recall the spectacular color of night sky deranged by a vision of some fierce fire ball. The disturbance of colors create some powerful and awe-inspiring beauty. In the picture's background, we find the animals' silhouettes which could be a memory reflection or dream fragments. In the story, Narcissus has been hunting - an activity that was itself a figure for sexual desire in antiquity. Captivated by his own beauty, the hunter sheds a radiance that, one presumes, reflects to haunt and foster his desire. The flaming color of the picture's Narcissus alludes to the erotic implications of the story and its unresolved problem of the one who desires himself and is trapped in the erotic delirium. The concept can be applied to an ontological difference between the artist's imitations and their objects. In effect, Jaisini's Narcissus could epitomize artistic aspiration to control levels of reality and imagination, to align the competition of art and life, of image with imaginable prototype. Jaisini's "Blue" is a unique work that adjoins reflection to reality without any instrumentality. "Blue" is a single composition that depicts the reality and its immediate reflection. Jaisini builds the dynamics of desire between Narcissus and his reflection-of-the-opposite by giving him the signs of both sexes, but not for the purpose of creating a hermaphrodite. The case of multiple deceptions in "Blue" seems to be vital to the cycle of desire. Somehow it reminds one of the fate of the artists and their desperate attempts to evoke and invent the nonexistent. "Blue" is a completely alien picture to Jaisini's "Reincarnation" series. The pictures of this series are painted on a plain ground of canvas that produces the effect of free space filled with air. "Blue," to the contrary, is reminiscencent of an underwater lack of air; the symbolism of this picture's texture and color contributes to the mirage of reincarnation. "Blue Reincarnation" (Oil painting) by Paul Jaisini New York 2002, Text Copyright: Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Send private comments to author

Kuchiku's Kawailight Zone: Bottoms up for Paul Jaisini - The Sexy Sparkle!

Kuchiku's Kawailight Zone: Bottoms up for Paul Jaisini - The Sexy Sparkle!

Kuchiku's Kawailight Zone: Homage to Paul Jaisini Bottoms up! The Sexiest Spa...

Kuchiku's Kawailight Zone: Homage to Paul Jaisini Bottoms up! The Sexiest Spa...

Art Basel 43, 2012

Art Basel 43


June 14, 2012 - June 17, 2012

Basel, Switzerland

Toni Shafrazi the famous art dealer turned artist at Art/43/Basel

Invitation to explore Julie Schenkelberg's Bad Blood @ Asya Geisberg Gallery

 Hopefully this review is the invitation for every other art lover to continue the quest to connect with this amazing art on a personal level to reveal more secrets, hidden treasures, sacred memories and unspoken truths.

Behind The Stage. Review of Julie Schenkelberg Bad Blood @ Asya Geisberg Gallery.

Julie Schenkelberg had her goal accomplished, I think, it is memory, her own turned into the artifact that pulls you into questioning of how we connect to it. How we try to survive the obscurities of the real world driven to the obscurity of art. You also can't but enjoy the degree of narcissistic self-love in the pieces of insignificant material value brought together on a monumental scale to immortalize symbols of past memories.
A visually rough treatment provokes the question how this is different from the things that we throw away every day as not wanted, not useful. This balances heavily on a sense of loss.

Memory pieces stocked up together... some pieces seemed deliberately missing uneven odd but fit just right in a large ensemble of things. Someone says it's brilliant, others -- it's an absolute delusion. Some would say anything nowadays ignite critical engine.
To me this is an interesting reminder of ab ex. Julie's ambition "to paint" in the chosen media is a stoic daring stance to impress with her strong monumental approach that manifests recent tendency of male-female symbiosis in visual art.

Glimpsing to see the future in the "crystal ball" may be startling for the creator. She faces the truth with calm wisdom, inspired to bring order out of chaos, will create chaos out of order. Her will to create is stronger then fear of limitations and unknown. The future is in the process of being formed not jelled enough to be fully predicted and interpreted.

Vocation on Mars

New Riddle

The decoration framed the gallery this time in a conceptually new way, What this "play" is about, what did it convey? Maybe I could analyze the givens now knowing that I am the part of the play as an actor/viewer. It strikes me how symbolic and always true "life is a theater..."
                    The artist is not just the decorator of the play this time, not just accomplice but the ideologist of her unusual show orchestrating a new riddle for the public. Will they or won't they figure her out... She is watching and waiting to meet those like-minded who want consciously to be a pert of her game/play. The eternal quest of creator in search of the unique artistic identity.

Julie Schenkelberg Bad Blood @ Asya Geisberg Gallery

To flatten multidimensional by the thought. Then to make it flat by multidimensional thinking.

Julie Schenkelberg Bad Blood @ Asya Geisberg

            The piece, I personally name "The Judge" maybe overlooks the view with a most critical eye.

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Art 43 Basel: Art Unlimited, a photo by gleitzeit2012 on Flickr.

Kuchiku's Kawailight Zone: Bottoms up for Paul Jaisini - THE SPARKLE

Kuchiku's Kawailight Zone: Bottoms up for Paul Jaisini - THE SPARKLE

DO I LOVE THIS ARTWORK? Art/43/Basel

Julian SCHNABEL "800 Blows", a photo by gleitzeit2012 on Flickr.

L & M Arts 
Julian SCHNABEL
"800 Blows"
1983
mixed media

DO I LOVE THIS ARTWORK?

Yes, Julian Schnabel, 

THIS IS MY FAVORITE

Julie Schenkelberg... spoon-words, wood-letters... envelope -- the sculpture...

 

Putting my impression in words is probably similar to the artist's work of putting her "signature"objects
    into an envelope (the sculpture) from which pieces of the story start to sneak out. But what is inside the
    envelope? Can new memories be created? Nothing is more precious then memories. Without memories,
    without the past there's no future.
  
   

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Seeing it Pink. Optimism Art

Optimism as new art trend is what the recent artfairs seem to convey with the atmosphere of festivities, parties and friendly art for everyone.
Art as fun for all.
The artworks that are biggest fun become the show's "fairmark" (landmark) for picture taking.